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Army frees women and child hostages of Boko Haram

Mr Buhari came to power in March this year largely on the back of a pledge to root out insecurity in Nigeria because of Boko Haram which has resulted in tens of thousands of people killed and many more kidnapped or displaced.

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The first adjustment was to include financing for an economic and social development plan, the government said.

The Nation is excited over presidential directive that all arrears of salaries and allowances must be paid to workers.

“We know Boko Haram is linked to Daesh and so receives help [and] support from this group”, Hollande said Monday alongside Buhari at a press conference in Paris, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.

These are suspected to have been feeding the insurgents in Damboa axis around Azir-Wajiroko road.Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations, said the 33 suspected Boko Haram accomplices were arrested with large quantityof foodstuff meant for Boko Haram terrorists at Korode.

Buhari said: “The issue of Chibok girls has occupied our minds and because of the global attention it drew and the sympathy throughout the country and the world, the government is negotiating with some of Boko Haram’s leadership”.

At least a dozen women and children who had been held captive by Islamic extremists Boko Haram were freed after Nigeria’s army cleared the group’s camps in northeastern Borno state, officials said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) has asked the Federal Government to approach the negotiation with members of the sect with caution, saying that only genuine members, who are ready to keep their own side of the bargain, should be entertained. Number two, what are their terms?

He said the troops, during clearance operations of Boko Haram hideouts, discovered and destroyed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by Boko Haram terrorists at Sandia village on the Korode Road.

The statement did not specify from where the most recently rescued women and children had been kidnapped or how they were doing. A 13-year-old girl is among those who have been used to carry out the attacks.

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Fifty-seven escaped but nothing has been heard of the 219 others since May past year, when about 100 of them appeared in a Boko Haram video, dressed in Muslim attire and reciting the Koran.

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